And they can be so deeply disdainful of the city people who are “dirty, drugged out and crooked,” while simultaneouly being “snotty, greedy rich elites”
I laugh when people tell me how rural folks are all that is good and urban folks are just condescending elites.
Don't extrapolate my generalization to be universal.
I just do not agree AT ALL that rural people are entitled to 3 votes just for being rural. They are not special, they are not perfect, they are not better than the “snobby urbanites.” They are just people like everyone else and the calls to claim they aren’t, are, in my experience, bullshit.
You seem to be extrapolating a position to me that I don't hold. You seem to be under the impression that I have implied that that one is better than the other. Please don't mistake the things I've called out that bother me personally as being an overall judgement in either direction.
Thing is that I don't think a popular vote is a good thing at all with FPTP. I think it would be worse than what we have right now. I don't view it as "perfect being the enemy of the good". I view it as being shortsighted and throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Why? You have not explained why you think that giving Wyoming almost 4X the per capita voting power of California is a good thing.
And no, I don't know enough about the EU to have an opinion. The USA I do know.
Tom
Yes, I DID. The electoral college system balances the rights of small population states against the power of large population states.
It does not balance them. It privileges them.
And it doesn’t need to as you can clearly see from NY, CA and TX having in their state legislatures a decent mix of the needs of rural and urban.
We’ve already PROVED that we don’t need it.
WA state certainly doesn't balance the needs of the rural and the urban. Nor does OR. And realistically nor does CA - CA privileges the wealthy areas, which happen to be more urban. TX does a decent job of keeping some degree of balance on their own... but they have a LOT of rural area that also has a lot of wealth.